The move follows similar restrictions on TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese connections. But the French decision also encompassed other platforms widely used by government officials, lawmakers and President Emmanuel Macron himself.
This is good and all, but as long as Android and iOS are subservient to the NSA, all that changes is an origin tag on the kompromat.
Baby steps, I suppose. Baby steps rather than trying to fix everything at once.